Silicon RFIC Design

RFIC design requires specialized and unique solutions beyond what a standard custom IC front-to-back design platform offers. Traditionally, harmonic balance (HB) simulators have been the key asset to serve these needs; however, the move to higher frequency bands, tighter on-chip integration, as well as within multi-chip modules assembled on printed circuit boards (PCBs) and latest wireless standards like LTE-Advanced (4G) or 802.11ac (WLAN) add new challenges to the underlying design platform. Keysight's RFIC simulation, analysis and verification solutions include a number of products to address the resulting requirements.

Key Features

Best-in-class RF circuit simulators provide the most advanced steady-state and envelope solvers for design and verification of RFICs.

Advanced analysis support offers a variety of capabilities required to fully explore, analyze and optimize your design far beyond what you will typically find in Spice “simulators” to make your designs more robust before tape-out.

Automation & usability accelerate the design and verification of your circuits through a number of built-in features.

Wireless standard-compliant design capability leverages the power of Communications Systems and RF circuit simulators together with a comprehensive library of standards based wireless verification IP to accelerate the validation of complex RFICs.

RF to mm-Wave design support offers the best performance, capacity and accuracy whether you are at RF or millimeter wave (mm-Wave) frequencies.

Go beyond IC design and seamlessly move across design domains of IC, package and board. This not only enables the co-design of the whole system (or sub-system), but also the optimization across entities that have traditionally been designed, simulated, and verified separately.

At the product level, Keysight's Silicon RFIC Design Solutions span across various tools depending on in which platform you work in, or what part of your design flow is done in which platform.

IHP announces support for ADS-Virtuoso Interoperable process design kits (PDKs). The PDKs are designed for use with Keysight’s Advanced Design System (ADS) EDA software and provide users access to a new Silicon RFIC interoperability feature available in ADS 2015.01.

Keysight announces it will demonstrate the latest RF, microwave and mmWave design and measurement solutions for R&D, manufacturing and service at the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, Booth 739, Phoenix, May 17-22.

IBM now offers specialty foundry clients a new set of interoperable process design kits (PDKs). The PDKs are designed for use with Keysight Technologies’ Advanced Design System (ADS) EDA software and Cadence Design System’s Virtuoso® custom design platform, providing users access to a new silicon RFIC interoperability feature available in ADS 2015.01.

In this video we show the Keysight Silicon RFIC design solutions that help you achieve your goals for designing today´s challenging RFICs and successfully going beyond the IC to verify its performance in higher levels of integration.

In this video we show the Advanced Design System, ADS, the powerful, easy, and complete design solution for RF, microwave, and high-speed digital designers. See capabilities such as a complete multi-technology design flow including layout and verification, integrated EM, and advanced models such as X-parameters.

This brochure highlights the benefits of the GoldenGate RFIC Simulator.GoldenGate is the most trusted simulation, analysis and verification solution available for integrated RF circuit design within Cadence Virtuoso.

GIT Japan Inc., a provider of advanced interface technologies between people and information, and a competence center for ultrawideband (UWB) chipset and module development, has selected the ADS platform for complete GaAs/GaN- and silicon-based RFIC/MMIC implementations.

Agilent announces a powerful new version of Advanced Design System software, ADS 2014. Designed to dramatically improve design productivity and efficiency with new technologies and capabilities, ADS 2014 is the software's most significant ADS release to date.

Agilent announces a new agreement that expands its business relationship with Gradient Design Automation, a leading provider of electro-thermal simulation technology used to identify hazards and improve performance in integrated circuits that will be subject to temperature variations during operation.

EdXact announces the release of a new option inside the latest version of Agilent Technologies’
GoldenGate simulator, which enables users of GoldenGate to speed up post-layout simulation suffering from an important number of parasitic netlist components.

Agilent will demonstrate 25 of its newest design and measurement solutions at the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (Booth 1230), June 2-7, at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle.

Agilent announces that Plextek RF Integration, a UK-based company that designs and develops RFICs, MMICs and microwave/millimeter-wave modules, has selected Agilent software to simulate its new high-frequency circuit and MMIC designs.